Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
Shareholders' Equity
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income	14. Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income Accumulated other comprehensive income includes the accumulated gains or losses from foreign currency translation adjustments. The Company translated the assets and liabilities on the balance sheet of its subsidiary, NTN Canada Inc., into U.S. dollars using the period end exchange rate. Revenue and expenses were translated using the weighted-average exchange rates for the reporting period. As of December 31, 2018 and 2017, $200,000 and $345,000, respectively, of accumulated foreign currency translation adjustments were recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income, respectively.

The entire disclosure for comprehensive income, which includes, but is not limited to, 1) the amount of income tax expense or benefit allocated to each component of other comprehensive income, including reclassification adjustments, 2) the reclassification adjustments for each classification of other comprehensive income and 3) the ending accumulated balances for each component of comprehensive income.

Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 220
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134417

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